Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Serb5150
I thought I had heard somewhere that one of the reasons there are no blue roses is that bees can't see the color blue...?

Yellow is for bees, blue for butterflies and red for hummingbirds. Yellow flowers bloom in spring because the bees are the first up come the season. Reds bloom after to lure the hummingbirds now home from Costa Rica. Blues bloom late in the season for the butterflies preparing to migrate.

Of course this is a very broad and general rule of thumb with a million exceptions. But the flora and their pollinating insects have learned through evolution the proper time that the flowers may be fertilized and the insects be fed.

Kinda neat, really.

1,821 posted on 06/11/2004 9:19:19 AM PDT by Fishtalk (Once a liberal and victim of all the spin. Ask me to interpret.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1705 | View Replies ]


To: Fishtalk; Serb5150

Animals see UV - flowers have patterns of UV colors on them which butterflies and bees and most animals can see. I dunno that it has much to do with the ROYGBV color spectrum.


1,844 posted on 06/11/2004 9:21:17 AM PDT by Terriergal (Ps27:5 "For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in His dwelling;")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1821 | View Replies ]

To: Fishtalk

Not so sure about those rules, the honey bees and bumble bees love my purple flowers and the periwinkle's I have. (different shadesof blue)


1,863 posted on 06/11/2004 9:22:15 AM PDT by Core_Conservative (Canadians view the world through a sphincter-prism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1821 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson